This story is adapted from A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies, by Matt Simon. The year was 1863, and famous billiard player Michael Phelan was worrying about ...

Microplastics are already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up, they are becoming a much bigger and more hazardous problem, according to a new analysis ...

Climate change is making plastic pollution more mobile, toxic, and widespread, accelerating risks for wildlife, ecosystems, ...

Our oceans have been experiencing a plastic crisis for decades. We have now reached a pivotal moment in ocean pollution, ...

Plastiglomerate made of lava rock and melted plastic. Researchers reported in a news article by Sergio Queiroz for Reuters the discovery of plastic-rocks on Trindade, a remote island located 1.140 ...

This is hardly the time to talk about plastics is what I think when Dad, hovering over the waste bin at a post-funeral potluck, waves me over, his gesture discreet but emphatic. He has retrieved from ...

Walking down the street, or visiting the park or beach, there’s one thing you’ll almost inevitably see: pieces of plastic packaging—washed up on the sand, tangled in a hedgerow, lying in the gutter.